Njal's Saga, 39-59

The slavery idea really stuck in my head so I decided to blog solely about slavery. We (or I)usually perceive slavery as a a phenomena in the eighteenth century in the Americas, and I don't think we picture europeans and icelandic people as slave owners and traders, but in truth slavery was a wide spread practice through human history. It was practiced as far back as egypt and the mayas, abolished in Mauritania in August, 2007, and still occurs today, especially in the form of sex trafficking.

Slavery was a huge part of the Roman Empire, mking up most of the economy and workforce, which eneded up contributing to the collapse. I bring it up because we all know a large part of our civilization is based on the roman empire.

We also saw in Night by Elie Wiezel that in the camps they had a form of pseudo slavery where they trafficked kidss as protitutes to homsexuals and others. In Colombia las FARC also takes young girls to serve as protitutes.

Even if we think of slavery as an archaic concept, we still feel its effects today and we can also see this in Njl's Saga. We apparently cannot escape slavery and what it entails, even if we look upon it with disgust and contempt today.